In Ordinary Time : Fragments of a Family History

In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc MahonA�left Ireland for NewA�York,A�carrying two suitcases andA�a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and aA�bitterA�struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick theA�intricate traumas ofA�her past and present. Candid yet lyrical, In Ordinary Time mines the ways that trauma reverberates through timeA�and through individual lives,A�drawing connections to the events andA�rhythms of Ireland�_Ts long Celtic, early Christian and Catholic history. From tragically lost siblings to the broader social scars of the Famine and the Magdalene Laundries, Mc Mahon sketches the evolution of a consciousness �_" from her conservative 1970s upbringing to 1990s New York, and back to the much-changed Ireland of today.